Poses
Album - 4 giugno 2001 - Debaser id 21651

Cigarettes and chocolate milk
These are just a couple of my cravings
Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger
A little bit thicker, a little bit harmful for me

If I should buy jellybeans
Have to eat them all in just one sitting
Everything it seems I like's a little bit sweeter
A little bit fatter, a little bit harmful for me

And then there's those other things
Which for several reasons we won't mention
Everything about 'em is a little bit stranger, a little bit
harder
A little bit deadly

It isn't very smart
Tends to make one part
So brokenhearted

Sitting here remembering me
Always been a shoe made for the city
Go ahead accuse me of just singing about places
With scrappy boys faces have general run of the town

Playing with prodigal sons
Takes a lot of sentimental valiums
Can't expect the world to be your Raggedy Andy
While running on empty you little old doll with a frown

You got to keep in the game
Retaining mystique while facing forward
I suggest a reading of a Lesson in Tightropes
Or surfing Your High Hopes or adios Kansas

It isn't very smart
Tends to make one part
So brokenhearted

Still there's not a show on my back
Holes or a friendly intervention
I'm just a little bit heiress, a little bit Irish
A little bit Tower of Pisa
Whenever I see ya
So please be kind if I'm a mess

Cigarettes and chocolate milk
Cigarettes and chocolate milk

The yellow walls are lined with portraits
And I've got my new red fetching leather jacket
All these poses such beautiful poses
Makes any boy feel like picking up roses

There's never been such grave a matter
As comparing our new brand name black sunglasses
All these poses such beautiful poses
Makes any boy feel as pretty as princes

The green autumnal parks conducting
And the city streets a wondrous chorus singing
All these poses oh how can you blame me
Life is a game and true love is a trophy

And you said
Watch my head about it
Baby you said watch my head about it
My head about it
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no no kidding

Reclined amongst these packs of reasons
For the smoke the days away into the evenings
All these poses of classical torture
Ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard
I did go from wanting to be someone now
I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue

Once you've fallen from classical virtue
Won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you

In the green autumnal parks conducting
All the city streets a wondrous chorus
Singing all these poses now no longer boyish
Made me a man ah but who cares what that it

And you said watch my head about it
Baby you said watch my head about it
My head about it
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no well you said
Watch my head about it
Baby you said watch my head about it
My head about it
Oh no oh no oh no
Oh no oh no no kidding

Who will keep, keep me in this evening
Even though they are not here with me
I could be a great star
Still I'm far from happy

Finally, filled the world around me
Fighting through, fighting through the whiskey
I could be a great star
still I'm far from happy

Out of these shadows comes the light
Shadows comes the light

You will keep, keep me in this evening
Even though you are not here with me

I could be a great star
Still I'm far from happy

I could be a great star
I could be a great star
I could be a great star
I could be a great star

Out of these shadows
Comes the light

Out of these shadows
Comes the light

Shadows comes the light

California, California
You're such a wonder that I think I'll stay in bed
Big time rollers, part time models
So much to plunder that I think I'll sleep instead

I don't know this sea of neon, thousand surfers, whiffs of freon
And big nights back east with Rhoda
California, please

There's a moment I've been saving
A kind of crucifix around this munchkin land
Up north freezing, little me drooling
That's Entertainment's on at eight
Come on Ginger, slam

I don't know this sea of neon, thousand surfers, whiffs of freon
And my new grandma Bea Arthur
Come on over

Ain't it a shame that at the top
Peanut butter and jam they served you
Ain't it a shame that at the top
Still those soft skin boys can bruise you
Yes, I fell for a streaker

I don't know this sea of neon, thousand surfers, whiffs of freon

Ain't it a shame that all the world
Can't enjoy your mad traditions
Ain't it a shame that all the world
Don't got keys to their own ignitions
Life is the longest death in California

California, you're such a wonder that I think I'll stay in bed
So much to plunder that I think I'll sleep instead
You're such a wonder that I think I'll stay in bed

So much to plunder that I think I'll sleep instead

"It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present,
you know what I mean?"

Honey, I'm a roller concrete clover, Tadzio, Tadzio
Arm wrestle your mother simply over, Tadzio, over you
But beware my heart can be a pin, a sharp silver dragonfly

Tryin' to get my mansions green
After I've Grey Gardens seen (gardens seen)

In between tonight and my tomorrows, Tadzio, where've you been
In between tonight, I know it's Tadzio
Tadzio, don't you fight
Honey can you hear me, in between
Been draggin' a dragonfly

Tryin' to my mansions green
After I've Grey Gardens seen (gardens seen)
Honey, won't you hold me tight (hold me tight)
Get me through Grey Gardens tonight

Tadzio, Tadzio
Tadzio, Tadzio

Tryin' to get my mansions green
After I've Grey Gardens seen (gardens seen)
Honey, won't you hold me tight (hold me tight)
Get my through Grey Gardens tonight

Tadzio, Tadzio
Tadzio, Tadzio

Where is my master, the Rebel Prince,
Who will shut all these windows?
It's these windows all around me,
It's these windows who are telling me
To rid my dirty mind of all of its preciousness.

Where is my master, the Rebel Prince ?
They're breaking everything trying to get to me
in this two-bed hotel,
Just to me before this window sill
Does rid my dirty mind of all of its preciousness.

Oh I can see him now
Though it's so far away,
Amongst the roving crowd
Going the other way
Confounded anger burning with love for me.

Ou est mon maître le Prince Rebelle,
Qui va fermer toutes ces fenêtres ?
Ce sont ces fenêtres autour de moi,
Ce sont ces fenêtres qui m'appellent,
Qui m'appellent.

Marigold, marigold, marigold
I'm leaving the Roosevelt Hotel
Marigold, marigold, marigold
I'm leaving the room we knew so well.

prepare your things, dissolve your mind
'cause I'm your consort
beautiful queen of seventeen

a blood red moon has spared our bed
but not your rivals
beautiful queen

prepare to reign, no more to hide
with I your faithful consort
by your side
let streamers fly and cannons roar
on your arrival
beautiful queen

tomorrow night, prepare to walk
on anyone her highness ever wants
and trust in me, you're not alone
together we'll wreak havoc on the throne

trust in me, you're not alone
even though my throne's slightly
smaller than yours, beautiful queen
together we'll wreak havoc, you and me
together we'll wreak havoc, you and me
together we'll wreak havoc, you...

prepare your things, dissolve your mind
'cause I'm your consort
beautiful queen of seventeen

For to see my depth of sorrow
You are not allowed to follow me
Into this town square
And then run away

Evil angel with your cleft tongue
When you kissed me
On this town square
All the lights came on at sunset
Thought you'd stay

Evil angel bearing apples
When you kissed me
On this drawbridge
As the boats do
How was I to know you'd flee

Tear down these monuments
Bury the coat of arms
And build for me a factory

Evil angel when you're faced with hatred's
Daggers in my honor
You're no match no scratching hearts that no longer bleed

Oh Evil angel tear down the monuments
Evil angel bury the coat of arms
And rebuild for me these memories

For to see my depth of sorrow

wandering properties of death
arresting moons within our eyes and smiles we did rest
among the granite tombs to catch our breath

worldly sounds of endless warring
were for just a moment silent stars
worldly boundaries of dying
were for just a moment never ours

all was new
just as the black horizons blue

then along the bending path away
i smiled in knowing i'd be back one day